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The top payments stories you missed in March 2025

Dominique Dierks Senior Content Manager at Finextra

The top payments stories you missed in March 2025

March has been a busy month in the world of payments. From regulatory upheaval to rising fraud numbers, here is an overview of our most viewed Payments stories from this month. UK Government confirms plans to scrap Payment Systems Regulator You probably did not miss this story. In March, the UK Government has officially confirmed its plans to aboli...

28 March 2025 /payments

Fintech sentiment: What the PSR abolishment means for the UK

Dominique Dierks Senior Content Manager at Finextra

Fintech sentiment: What the PSR abolishment means for the UK

This week, the UK Government has confirmed its plans to scrap the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) in a bid to slash red tape and boost economic growth. The PSR’s operations will be merged with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) once the government has passed primary legislation to enact the change. Opinions on the axing of the PSR are divided....

17 March 2025 /regulation

What’s happening at the SEC? Examining signs of Trump’s regulatory roll-back for crypto

Dominique Dierks Senior Content Manager at Finextra

What’s happening at the SEC? Examining signs of Trump’s regulatory roll-back for crypto

Over the last weeks, a series of events and announcements have shaken up the crypto market in the US. From SEC (US Securities and Exchange Commission) case dismissals to the creation of a US Crypto Reserve, the Trump administration has quickly signalled a 180 turn on the handling of cryptocurrencies. Even before his inauguration, President Trump w...

04 March 2025 /regulation

The top payments stories you missed in February 2025

Dominique Dierks Senior Content Manager at Finextra

The top payments stories you missed in February 2025

Catch up on our most viewed payments stories from February 2025. UK Government mulls abolishment of Payment Systems Regulator Our most read news story from February was the announcement that the UK government is considering scrapping the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) and folding it into the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). As it currently stan...

28 February 2025 /payments

What to expect from the AI Action Summit in Paris

Dominique Dierks Senior Content Manager at Finextra

What to expect from the AI Action Summit in Paris

On 10 and 11 February 2025, France will host global heads of state and government, CEOs, academics, and many more in Paris at the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit. For two days, these AI leaders will discuss five main themes, including: Public interest in AI, The future of work, Innovation and culture, Trust in AI, and Global AI governance. Wh...

07 February 2025 /ai

Starting the ISO 20022 countdown: The clock is ticking, but is the industry ready?

Dominique Dierks Senior Content Manager at Finextra

Starting the ISO 20022 countdown: The clock is ticking, but is the industry ready?

We’re just a few months out from the ISO 20022 CBPR+ deadline, and financial institutions globally are starting the last sprint towards readiness. By December 2024, only 32.9% of organisations had adopted the new messaging standard, showing the hurdles that are still ahead for many. Crucially, Swift has made it clear that the timeline will not...

29 January 2025 /regulation

Modern customers, modern payments: Addressing a changing e-commerce landscape

Dominique Dierks Senior Content Manager at Finextra

Modern customers, modern payments: Addressing a changing e-commerce landscape

In 2025, retail e-commerce revenue is expected to exceed $4.8 billion worldwide. Over the last five years, the world has shifted to digital: online shopping from retailers across borders is overtaking high-street shopping, and in the world of payments, contactless and BNPL (buy now, pay later) are increasingly catching up to traditional card or ca...

14 January 2025 /payments

Mind the fintech gap: Regulatory deadlines in 2025

Dominique Dierks Senior Content Manager at Finextra

Mind the fintech gap: Regulatory deadlines in 2025

What regulatory deadlines are coming up in 2025? The financial services sector is facing a significant number of regulatory and standard updates, so Finextra has collated an overview of significant deadlines that are coming up this year. January EU – DORA will apply from 17 January The EU’s highly anticipated Digital Operational Resilience Act (DOR...

03 January 2025 /regulation

Dominique Dierks Senior Content Manager at Finextra

Finextra's top research reports of 2024

2024 was marked by future-proofing, whether it was preparing for a tidal wave of regulatory changes, or modernising to keep up with technological innovation. Let us look back at Finextra’s year in review: our most popular research reports of 2024. 10. 8 Steps to Efficient Transaction Fraud Monitoring As card transaction fraud spikes, this impact ...

30 December 2024 /predictions

What is the global AI legislative outlook?

Dominique Dierks Senior Content Manager at Finextra

What is the global AI legislative outlook?

The EU AI Act made history as the world's first AI legislation when it entered into force in August 2024. We have now entered a 24-month transitional period during which delegated legislation, guidelines, and standards are being drafted and published across all EU member states. The regulatory framework is designed to identify varying levels of ri...

16 December 2024 /ai

How data and SaaS are paving the way for embedded bank payments

Dominique Dierks Senior Content Manager at Finextra

How data and SaaS are paving the way for embedded bank payments

Our latest Finextra webinar, ‘SaaS savvy: Preparing for embedded and data driven bank payments’, hosted in association with Bottomline, discussed the transition to SaaS-based models in banking and payments, emphasising the need for data integration and analytics. Hosted by Finextra’s Gary Wright, the panel consisted of William Artingstall, managin...

22 November 2024 /devops

AI, CBDC, and stablecoins: Trending tech in the payments sector

Dominique Dierks Senior Content Manager at Finextra

AI, CBDC, and stablecoins: Trending tech in the payments sector

This is an excerpt from the Future of Payments 2025 report. Never has technology evolved as quickly as it does today, and innovation is ripe in finance and banking. AI, tokenisation, stablecoins, CBDCs and hyper-personalisation are all elements of discussion when it comes to making transactions more secure, streamline operations, reduce costs an...

25 October 2024 /Sibos

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